The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

Virginia Woolf

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

George Sand

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Ernest Hemingway

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Thomas Fuller

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Marcel Proust

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Samuel Johnson

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

William Greider

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.

William Shakespeare

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

Ellie Goulding

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Felix Adler